BeyondCorp: Design to Deployment at Google

Author(s):

Barclay Osborn, Justin McWilliams, Betsy Beyer, and Max Saltonstall

The goal of Google’s BeyondCorp initiative is to improve our security with regard to how employees and devices access internal applications. Unlike the conventional perimeter security model, BeyondCorp doesn’t gate access to services and tools based on a user’s physical location or the originating network; instead, access policies are based on information about a device, its state, and its associated user. BeyondCorp considers both internal networks and external networks to be completely untrusted, and gates access to applications by dynamically asserting and enforcing levels, or "tiers," of access.